“Two beer-loving dog slackers reluctantly adopt a socially awkward, smelly rice cake roommate who tastes delicious.”
Hal & Bons
ハル&ボンス
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Synopsis
Two beer-loving dog slackers reluctantly adopt a socially awkward, smelly rice cake roommate who tastes delicious.
Hal and Bons are a pair of beer drinking slacker dogs. They are joined on their sofa by an anthropomorphic rice cake by the name of Mochi who first interviews them and then decides to give up being an interviewer and move in with them instead. Hal and Bons have mixed feelings about this turn of events - Mochi tastes great but he's rather lacking in social skills and he's starting to smell... (Source: ANN)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
What 2 viewers settled on.
Strong agreement
σ 1.00 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 1.00
Running avg · Dec 2008 → Dec 2009
- 5 “Hal & Bons is a CGI animated anime, about a riceball(?) interviewing two lazy-ass dogs that do nothing else but drinking beer and watching tv. With that said, I said everything I could actually...”
- 3 “Well I didnt really know what to expect when i watched this. based on the first episode alone i thought it was rather unique. kinda weird characters (especially the talking mochi). But my initial...”
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A Ova Production
Grasshoppa!
- Format 5 × 8′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 40m all episodes
- Aired Oct 2002 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-3086 catalog
Produced by
- Grasshoppa! Producer